DFW CEO Jeff Fegan Wuh-oh, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan. Looks like Mayor Tom wants … an investigation! So says KTVT-Channel 11, which yesterday brought us news of DFW execs and board members’ big-ticket travel, which the airport has defended with this memo. Notes the breaking-news sounder, with…
Sam Merten Said Mayor Tom today, “If we turn our back on the convention center hotel, we’re turning our back on the City of Dallas and the future of this city.” As I awaited the beginning of today’s Build the Hotel press conference, council member Dave Neumann approached me. After…
Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, being interviewed a few years ago by KERA’s Sam Baker The Big Boss is on his way to Northaven United Methodist Church for the 4 p.m. funeral of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who died Sunday at 83 and whose obituary makes The New York Times today…
Gorgeous day. Let’s play two! On second thought, let’s just play one and call it a season. There are 16 people in the right-field upper deck here in Arlington. Counted ’em myself. That was after, of course, I spent some quality time in the Rangers’ clubhouse before today’s home finale…
Sam Merten If you don’t support the hotel, Mayor Tom will destroy you. Just got back from the big Build the Hotel pep rally in the Flag Room at City Hall, where Mayor Tom and friends announced they’ll be doing some signature gathering of their own. Apparently, they are asking…
In other movie news, the long-in-the-making Christmas on Mars — otherwise known as the Flaming Lips freakout Wayne Coyne’s been working on since 2001 — finally makes its Dallas debut October 17 and 18 at the Inwood Theatre, with two midnight showings. No doubt, this is due in part to…
Not just because his free-wheelin’, pirate-lovin’, pass-happy Texas Tech Red Raiders are up to 10th in the nation this year. I’ve always loved Leach. Way I remember it, I once even endorsed him to be Bill Parcells’ replacement as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. “Conversate … ”? “Watch her…
USA Today has a lengthy interview with Oliver Stone today in advance of the October 17 opening of a little something called W. Clearly, the writer’s seen W, which has yet to screen for critics, and describes it thusly: “The movie portrays Bush as charming, spiritually devout and well-intentioned but…
Jeff Pearlman’s book ain’t got nothing on Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson’s 1987 autobiography Out of Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty, in which he detailed how, during Super Bowl XIII, he kept that infamous inhaler of liquefied cocaine stashed in his uniform. But much has changed since Tom Landry cut Hollywood…
The Dallas Women’s Foundation today released a study that says, in short, “Women in the Dallas-Fort Worth region are more likely to live in poverty, less likely to own a home, more likely to earn less and less likely to get as far in their careers with equal education than…
Tom Casey, Dallas-based Blockbuster’s chief financial officer, was in New York City yesterday to lay out the company’s fiscal future during the two-day-long Thomas Weisel Partners’ Annual Consumer Conference. And Casey made the case that Blockbuster’s stores, of which there are several hundred fewer today than there were a year…
Speaking of budgets, the Dallas city council will give an okey-doke to Mary Suhm’s $2.7 billion budget today, during its busy council session. And right after the council pushes through its plan to spend money in the coming fiscal year, it’ll OK some plans to increase revenue — among them,…
He’ll be back next year. Will you? I’m headed out to Arlington today to soak up some afternoon sun, take in the Rangers’ home finale and try – yet again – to decipher what went wrong with another baseball season. (Insert jealousy here.) News – courtesy the Fort Worth Star-Telegram…
Sometime in the last couple of days, the Dallas Independent School District added to its Web site a “Dallas ISD Finances” page, where it lays out those pesky frequently asked questions (as in, “How did the figure rise from $64 million to $84 million?”) and offers answers, more or less,…
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan, pictured in the back row About a month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan acknowledged that the airport’s going through tough economic times like everyone else, thus necessitating a budget freeze and a halt on future expansion plans for the time…
Well, Merten called it yesterday, when he pointed out that Mayor Tom and Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau reps would be making their case for that convention center hotel during a press conference tomorrow that’s unfurling in the City Hall Flag Room smack in the middle of the city council’s…
Last night, I caught a little bit of T. Boone Pickens’ Q&A in front of the National Press Club yesterday. C-SPAN’s got the whole thing, for those with an hour to spare. If not, here’s a highlight, during which the Dallas oil billionaire with The Plan talks about how Democratic…
Kirk Bloodsworth Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted, twice, of raping and killing a Maryland 9-year-old girl in 1984 — a crime for which he was to be put to death. But in the early 1990s, he was released from prison and became, as CNN put it in 2000, the “first prison…
Just like I said I wouldn’t, I finally got around to reading Jeff Pearlman’s new book on the ‘90s Dallas Cowboys – Boys Will Be Boys. Turns out the thing, which is getting rave reviews from all over, is indeed entertaining. Encyclopedic, even. I just found it a teensy bit…
Everyone’s getting a big giggle out of 143-year-old New York Post Page Six columnist Cindy Adams’ reference today to Preston Hollow as “a town outside Dallas” known for its “horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views.” Notes a Post comment, “Cindy Adams has perhaps sampled the manure addiction”;…
Dallas is far from the best city in the U.S. when it comes to sustainability (that’d be Portland), and it’s far from the worst (Mesa, Arizona, ranks 50th out of 50). Once again we’re right in the middle on SustainLane’s “complete report card on urban sustainability in America,” perched at…
Appearing on Dancing With the Stars was not a suggestion. Mavs owner Mark Cuban was in NYC yesterday, speaking on a panel titled “The Future of Media” held in conjunction with Advertising Week. Among his fellow panelists were Randy Falco, CEO of AOL; Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff; and Ken…
